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VIEWS
Print Media's Plight
There are services of gov-
ernment which are absolutely
basic, which must be pro-
vided irrespective of trouble
or cost. The fostering of
good order...
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CORRESPOND-
ENCE
Hitchcock Infinitum
To the Editors: I don't know if you pub-
lished Hitchcock's article [May 14] out
of intellectual openness or as a subtle
way of showing up the...
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CATCH-UP LEADERSHIP
There's an almost pathetic poignancy to the recent pastoral instruction
from the Vatican on public communications. The pastoral, sweeping and
detailed, is a meritorious...
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REINHOLD NIEBUHR
The ideas and attitudes of the father are rejected by
the son and discovered by the grandson. That, at least,
is the usual pattern. But as he did in so many things,
Reinhold...
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Hardhats* Hyacinths
And Heturnabie Battles
The last session of the Maryland State Senate experi-
enced a floor debate on an issue which a few years ago
might have been dismissed as ludicrous...
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HANS Kr\4. REPLIES
TO GREGORY RAUM
What is the criterion for a critical theology?
I am sincerely grateful to my good friend Gregory
Baum for his detailed review of my book, Infallible?...
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CARL BODE
THE FRIDAY FENCE
The water hurries toward me, whipped by the same
Wind throwing sand onto my face. The sky in its
Folded gray lowers over last Sunday's lace.
The beachgrass bends...
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LATIN AMERICA:
WHO IS TO BLAME?
GARY MacEOIH
Last year, during a three-month search for Latin
American reality which took me to 13 countries of the
hemisphere, I discovered in an obscure...
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UN ART NOUVEAU
THE SCREEN
The title of Eric Rohmer's third film, La Collection-
neuse, might well have been given to the film by its
narrator rather than Rohmer himself. The narrator...
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BOOKS
Dickens gets the old scrutiny
Dickens the Novelist
F. R. LEAVIS & Q. D. LEAVIS
Pantheon, $10
BRIAN WICKER
In The Great Tradition (first pub-
lished 1948) F. R. Leavis...
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